Fri. 02/18 - Did the Index Destroy How We Read? Will eBooks?

How a medieval hatred of indexes mirrors debates today about how search engines are changing our brains. Plus, a round-up of the unceasing Wordle news and spin-offs. A thousand Porsches are on fire in the middle of the Atlantic. And how about a caffeinated doughnut with your space-themed Coca-Cola?

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Links:

• How Scholars Once Feared That the Book Index Would Destroy Reading (Literary Hub)
• Students Today Can't Prepare Bark to Calculate Their Problems (Quote Investigator)
• Wordle Has Ad Trackers Now That the New York Times Owns It (Gizmodo)
• The New York Times has changed Wordle's solutions (The Verge)
• Extra credit: You can play Wordle in other languages! (Duo Lingo)
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• 1,000 Porsches are burning aboard this abandoned cargo ship (The Verge)
• Ship Carrying 1,100 Porsches and Other Luxury Cars Is Burning and Adrift (NY Times)
• Just one last job...(Evan Simko-Bednarski, Twitter)
• Cargo Ship Full of Porsches, Bentleys and VWs Is On Fire and Adrift in the Atlantic [UPDATED] (The Drive)
• Coca-Cola introduces a first-of-its-kind flavor (CNN)
• Snack maker Hostess unveils caffeinated doughnuts as market for caffeine-spiked food heats up (Washington Post)
• Kottke.Org
• Jackson Bird on Twitter

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